Tom Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ Suspension Reinstated After Appeal

A federal appeals court in New York April 25 reinstated New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, finding the National Football League acted within its authority to punish him for using underinflated footballs in a 2015 playoff game Nat’l Football League Mgmt. Council v. Nat’l Football League Players Ass’n, 2d Cir., 15-2801, 4/25/16).

“Our review of the record yields the firm conclusion that the commissioner properly exercised his broad discretion to resolve an intramural controversy between the league and a player,” Judge Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote in a ...